Will Robots Free Us From Work? @ConversationUK

Over at the Conversation, a short discussion of the possibility that robots (of any kind) will eventually mean we can all retire with fat pensions. I have to agree that I don't think Wall-E is in our futures, for a number of reasons, including that most people have to have a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and work is a good one. Additionally, people want to be remembered, and children aren't the only way to accomplish that. Obviously one could commit crimes in order to become famous, but that kind of activity has a severe downside. What most people want, I think, is to be immortal.  Our accomplishments in life are a means to make certain the next generation, and maybe the one after that one, remembers us.